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Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and treasurer John Harrington met with attorney Bob Woolf in Boston yesterday to iron out a contract between the club and right-hander Luis Tiant...
Tiant was confused about the Drago trade, which sent one of the Red Sox's best relievers, Dick Drago, to California for three minor league nobodies. "I don't know why those people do it, but we have to be ready for this kind of thing...
Luis didn't want to predict how the Red Sox would fare this year. "Nobody knows," Luis said. But he is still very optimistic. "We have a much better team this year than last," because of the new strength in the pitching staff, especially with the addition of Ferguson Jenkins, Luis said...
...form doesn't count when you're pitching. Luis Tiant does not have the best form around, but he does have the mental attitude and the physical attributes to lead the Red Sox to another pennant. And this time they'll beat the Reds...
...been with the Sox for 25 years, and like most pitching coaches, lectured for fifteen minutes on the virtues of "keeping the ball down." That's everything: Slack keeps charts of hard-hit balls, whether they're caught or not, and when he shows them to pitchers it is proven that for every one low ball, five above-belt pitches get just that--belted. The pitchers tend to respond by saying, "I know." "If I had ten pitchers standing in front of me now, I'd tell all of them the same thing--keep the ball...